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Judicial Estab.
Judges – Number
The decision of reason being thus peremptory
against the system of multiplicity in judicature, it
is a natural enough question is whence it can have
happened that the decision of prejudice should
have been so in some countries so strongly
in its favour. In France, in great measure
doubtless from habit usage. But the usage it
is well known had no view of public utility for its
foundation origin. While it cost money to have Judges,
each Court had but one: the Senectial Seneschal
the Baillé, or whatever else was his denomination.
When money was to be got by making Judges
Judges multiplied like locusts to such a degree
has as to have become a subject of national
complaint.† † v. Mounier considerations Then sprung up Provincial Parliaments
and Courts of Account, and Courts of
Revenue and Forest Courts and Courts of Marble.
Independently of this local and accidental
cause it may have been grounded on two circumstances considerations.
One is the obvious action that two
heads are better than one: the other is the
noting of limiting and power by division.
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